Review by InFloW 
UPDATED: 1 year ago
member for 6 years, 1714 visits, last login: 1 days ago
 Fergus,ON
 $69 per month (month by month)
 about 30 days
 "Great Speeds"
 "Tech Support and when things go bad it can take months to fix"
 "If they had support and didn't have congestion every couple months they might be good"
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Well just a small update Cogeco has now been offering great speeds to my area for 10 months without issue now. This is very rare but I imagine it's because they did a rebuild of my town. I now see 15mbit constant any time of the day which is awesome. But as always you need to watch out with Cogeco as when things get bad it can take a long time for them to fix it up. Sending out techs that cannot do anything is normal as most problems seem to not have to do with signal issues which techs coming to your house generally deal with. They cannot fix the congestion issues or area wide problems that happen.
Followup comments:  
wyliec
@cogeco.com
| cogeco speeds cogeco ping rates have always been great according to other
reviews. i've heard of problems with the p2p and torrents
though and thats pretty much hit and miss. some people say its traffic shaping and that can be countered by using azereus with encryption turned on. before u make a decision
i would suggest trying the same service with another pc or
borrow a laptop.
good luck. | |
|  | bigdink
join:2004-10-03
Windsor, ON
 ·Cogeco Cable
| Re: cogeco speeds Well I been with Cogeco for some Time and they have come a long way. For p2p and Gaming it is the bomb..Live streaming is the shit.. So Check This Shit out this is with stuff downloading.
»/speedtests/93···61252219 | |
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nickanon
@cgocable.net
| Re: Agreed the guys name is warez zealot? oh lord...
well cogeco's real problem is that they've offered new speeds, and their backhaul from toronto (where they aggregate their downstreams, which sadly consist of cogent communications and peer1 now ;() to burlington (where they actually aggregate the cable modems) is an overloaded oc48. they are working to fix this afaik. not that this means anything to most people whining on forums 
having said that cogeco delivers relatively good service, i was a beta tester for cablenet's wave 10 years ago, and have been loyal since then. face it, bell's atm cloud is congested, and their network is wellfare :P the other little dsl resellers varry in quality, so read wisely before signing.
praise the lord for inventing the p-cube, and allowing them to throttle p2p  because of this, i get ~1080KBytes (not bits) sustainable almost around the clock, but I live in a pretty sparse area (large lots, fewer homes per docsis bottleneck) in the GTA.
cheers kids,
nickr // efnet | |
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